Coding Exercise Tips for Technical Candidates and Hiring Managers

Here at Stout we screen a lot of technical candidates. Our first step is to filter the resumes. (We have little need for glass window installers despite the fact that […]

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How To Prepare For When A Key Employee Gets "Hit by a Bus"

I'm not sure where it came from or how it started, but that's the euphemism we use. As in, "Can we still deploy if Joe is hit by a bus?" […]

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Estimation and Scheduling Tips for Beginners

Let’s start with this statement: You cannot accurately estimate anything you haven’t done before. If I asked you to estimate how long it would take you to make a new […]

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Debugging Impossible Bugs: Try Making It Worse

I do a lot of debugging in my work. Not only do I debug my own code, but I also help other developers with difficult-to-diagnose bugs. Most bugs are pretty […]

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Software Architecture: How Much Is Too Much?

One aspect of my job as Stout's Chief Technologist—and one that I really enjoy—is reviewing code bases. I get to do this somewhat regularly; evaluating code for reusability, providing basic […]

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Document Like You Code

Documentation types A well-run organization that develops software, hardware, or services, requires a large amount of documentation to ensure the products and services meet their objectives and timelines of the […]

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Debugging Impossible Bugs: Try Making It Worse

I do a lot of debugging in my work. Not only do I debug my own code, but I also help other developers with difficult-to-diagnose bugs. Most bugs are pretty […]

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Programmatically Rendering PDFs from HTML using Chrome and Puppeteer

I've been a web developer for a long time, and one concept that always comes up is turning HTML into a PDF. It's a pretty natural request; HTML is a […]

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Coding Exercises for Technical Candidates

Here at Stout we screen a lot of technical candidates. Our first step is to filter the resumes. (We have little need for glass window installers despite the fact that […]

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How to Explain a Technical Subject to a Non-Technical Person: 3 Tips

When it comes to hiring or promoting a software engineer, communication skills can be used as the tie-breaker between two equally talented people. But that term—communication skills—is so broad that […]

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